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Old April 28th, 2005, 05:31 PM
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Default Re: Atmosphere conversion?

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Suicide Junkie said:
I think you're far overestimating the requirements here.

You technically need only a single transport to make the rounds, and it only needs to visit each planet once.
All of the transports that you normally have to ferry units to the front lines can bring 1m breathers along for the ride back.

No interruptions to ship production, at all.
He's talking small transport aka at most maybe 200 million people now let's take into account that you have to have both the population to drop on planets and the cargo space to hold the population you are transfering, now most systems have a population of well over 200 million!

Heck in my current game, wherein I am moving all alien species off their native worlds to sphereworlds as part of the roleplay, and i have a transport fleet numbering 15 that is having problems evacing the populations of those systems. And 5 of them are just for transporting aliens OFF world, not taking into account the other 10 which are loaded with populations to transfer to these worlds.

The average evac for me of a single system takes about three turns, with 5 totally empty ships ferrying populations from world o sphereworlds and the other ten transporting populations and transferring them.
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